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- Title
The effect of internal, external, and holistic focus of attention on standing long jump performance in novice and skilled karatekas.
- Authors
Noroozi, Tooran; Saemi, Esmaeel; Doustan, Mohammadreza; Singh, Harjiv; Aiken, Christopher A.
- Abstract
An important application for training instructions is found in directing one's attentional focus. This direction can occur in different internal, external, or holistic forms. However, comparison between these three forms of instructions is a relatively recent development rarely reported at different skill levels or various sports including karate. Therefore, the present study attempts to investigate the effects of three forms of instructions on standing long jump performance in skilled and novice karatekas. The participants were 60 skilled and novice karatekas (all females; mean age: 21.32 ± 1.65) who completed 12 standing long jump trials under different focus conditions (3 trials for each condition: internal, external, holistic and control condition) in a counterbalanced order. Our findings suggested significant main effects, indicating that skilled karatekas outperformed the novices. The findings also showed that regardless of skill levels, the participants exhibited similar performance under external and holistic focus conditions while performance in both of these conditions was superior compared to performance under internal focus and control conditions. No difference was observed between the control and internal focus conditions. It seems that skilled and novice karatekas may benefit from holistic and external focus of attention instructions which enhance their motor performance. Thus, it is recommended that coaches should incorporate these two types of attentional focus instructions into their training sessions. Highlights: Both external as well as holistic focus of attention are similar and improve standing long jump performance.Both skilled and novice karatekas benefit from external as well as holistic focus of attention.Performance under an Internal focus of attention is similar to control conditions and does not benefit standing long jump performance.
- Subjects
HOLISTIC medicine; MOTOR ability; STANDING position; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PHYSICAL training &; conditioning; ATTENTION; MARTIAL arts; ATHLETIC ability; JUMPING; COMPARATIVE studies
- Publication
European Journal of Sport Science, 2024, Vol 24, Issue 7, p930
- ISSN
1746-1391
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ejsc.12152